The doctoral students of the Universit茅 de Montr茅al School of Information Science invite you to participate in the 8th EBSI-SIS Doctoral Symposium. You have until August 22, 2014 to submit a summary of your talk, a summary of the poster you will be presenting, or to propose an activity.
Congratulations to UU直播 School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Catherine Guastavino on her NSERC (Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada) Engage Grant.
The project "Spatialized and Interactive Artificial Binaural Reverberation鈥� is a 3D audio rendering project in collaboration with industry partner Audiokinetic, a Montreal-based company producing audio engines for interactive media and video games.听
UU直播 School of Information Studies recent graduate Ada Chan (MLIS '14) was interviewed by the UU直播 Library's "Library Matters" blog about her successful Practicum placement with the Library while a student in the Master's program.
During her Practicum, Ada was responsible for implementing usability tests and assessment tools to investigate how听undergraduate and graduate library users from the UU直播 community听use the library website for their research and learning needs.
At its meeting of May 22, 2014, the UU直播 Board of Governors on the recommendation of Senate, approved the administrative relocation of the School of Information Studies (SIS) from the Faculty of Education to the Faculty of Arts.
Rebecca Nieto, a student in the UU直播 School of Information Studies Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) program, is a 2014 recipient of the Mosaic Scholarship given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The Mosaic Scholarship provides funding to students who demonstrate potential for scholastic and personal achievement and who manifest a commitment both to the archival profession and to advancing diversity concerns within it.
UU直播 School of Information Studies recent graduate Paul Grewal (MLIS '14) was interviewed by the UU直播 Library's "Library Matters" blog about his successful Practicum placement with the Library while a student in the Master's program.
During his Practicum, Paul was responsible for conducting interviews and analyzing LibQUAL+ survey results after changes to the Library鈥檚 reference service model were implemented.
Congratulations to UU直播 School of Information Studies PhD student Robert Douglas Ferguson on receiving a prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship.听
Robert's research investigates how senior citizens, who wish to live independently and remain in their own homes for as long as possible, can benefit from the results of 20 years of research in Personal Information Management (PIM).听
Congratulations to UU直播 School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Eun Park on her two-year UU直播 Internal SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities) Development Grant for her project "Linked Historical Collections as Networked Knowledge."
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Congratulations to UU直播 School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien on his five-year NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Discovery Grant for the project "Improving Retrieval of Unstructured Information using Existing Information Structures."
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UU直播 School of Information Studies recent graduate Emily Kingsland (MLIS '14) was recently interviewed by the UU直播 Library's "Library Matters" blog about her successful Practicum placement while a student in the Master's program.
During her Practicum, Emily was tasked with finding ways in which the Library could promote UU直播鈥檚 digital collections through social media, including Pinterest.
Announcing the new online publication of the UU直播 School of Information Studies newsletter, featuring updates about the School and achievements of our alumni, faculty, and students.
Read the Spring 2014 newsletter at
Interested in exploring intersections between information & chaos theories this summer? 听
"Information & Chaos Theories" is an independent reading group offered through the UU直播 Institute for the Public Life of Arts & Ideas (IPLAI), convened by Anastasia Prozorova, MLIS II student. The reading group is open to all UU直播 students, staff, and faculty, and will provide the opportunity to discuss information and chaos theories with an eye to interdisciplinarity. A summary of the group is below, as excerpted from the IPLAI site.
Dr. Benjamin Fung's work on cyber forensics and data mining is featured in the latest edition of Headway magazine, which highlights the best of research, discovery, and innovation at UU直播.
Read the full text article about Dr. Fung's research and cyber forensic tool in Headway,听Volume 8, Number 1 Spring 2014:
UU直播 School of Information Studies (SIS) Director Dr. France Bouthillier was interviewed for an April 1, 2014 article by the Ottawa Citizen regarding the outsourcing by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) of the national AMICUS catalogue to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) library cooperative.
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Dr. Kimiz Dalkir of the UU直播 School of Information Studies (SIS) has been selected as a leader in the development of the Quartier de l鈥橧nnovation鈥檚 鈥淢ontreal Creativity Hub.鈥�
